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The Tech Factory

Product information

Type

Magazine

Development

Gregg Dieckhaus

Primary writing

Gregg Dieckhaus, Jay Clendenny, Allen Phelps

Cover artwork

Kent Logsdon (many CAD illustrated covers)

Publication information

Publisher

Tech Factory

First published

1993

Content

The Tech Factory was a fan-made, unofficial BattleTech publication that ran for 13 issues. The first 3 issues were entitled The Mech Factory, but the publisher was contacted by Sam Lewis of FASA requiring a name change. In issue #4, the publisher claims that "all along we have been talking to FASA and had been told it was OK to print The Mech Factory." Sam Lewis explained by phone that when The Mech Factory transitioned from a Fanzine to a more proper nationally distributed magazine that they would need to become a generic science-fiction magazine and change names. The magazine was altered into the nearly identical The Tech Factory product with added coverage of Legions of Steel and Star Fleet Battles.

ARTICLES: Scenarios, Play Aids, The Tech Lab, QUADS-A close look at four legged Battlemechs. 12 New BattleMechs including two Goliath variants, the Yellow Jacket YJ-3A Quad BattleMech and the Cricket CRK-7J Quad BattleMech.

Note: Two of the Introductory Level technology Goliath variants in this issue might be of notable interest to some players. The GOL-1C is a variant with an AC/10 rather than a PPC. It also mounts two SRM6 launchers. The GOL-1E mounts a Large Laser, AC/10 and two SRM4's.